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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Gemma McSherry

Fundraiser launches to get terminally ill man to Glastonbury by helicopter

Nigel Stonehouse
Stonehouse, a former bricklayer from Hartlepool, has been a regular at Glastonbury for 30 years. Photograph: Maria Beggs/PA

The friends of a terminally ill man have launched a fundraising campaign to help him attend the Glastonbury festival next week.

Nigel Stonehouse, 58, from Hartlepool, was recently diagnosed with kidney cancer, which has now spread to his lungs. After receiving the terminal diagnosis, his friends wanted to fulfil his “dying wish” of attending the festival for a final time.

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